This is so disappointing. There is a reason that equality wasn’t used as the basis for the founding of the country.

The French tried it, though, and right after they killed most of the nobility, then the leaders of the revolution, things settled down. For a few years until Napoleon. Then his nephew. Then four or five constitutions. Then socialism.

Equality of misery for all of us. While they do whatever the fuck they want.

They should have been laughed off of the stage when Moochelle was lecturing folks about giving their life to service, not chasing the mighty dollar. She made $400,000 working for that hospital in Chicago. They live like rock stars now.

Jay, what gets me is that anyone would think it’s profoundly evil to *stop* taxing people at a 90% rate. Or that Reagan was the enemy of the working class…who prospered as never before under his policies.

No, far better to have masses struggling and scraping by, just so you can put the screws to a small number of rich guys.

Every sailing ship had to have cannon for protection. Cannon of the times required round iron cannonballs. The master wanted to store the cannonballs such that they could be of instant use when needed, yet not roll around the gun deck. The solution was to stack them up in a square-based pyramid next to the cannon. The top level of the stack had one ball, the next level down had four, the next had nine, the next had sixteen, and so on. Four levels would provide a stack of 30 cannonballs. The only real problem was how to keep the bottom level from sliding out from under the weight of the higher levels. To do this, they devised a small brass plate (“brass monkey”) with one rounded indentation for each cannonball in the bottom layer. Brass was used because the cannonballs wouldn’t rust to the “brass monkey”, but would rust to an iron one.

When temperature falls, brass contracts in size faster than iron. As it got cold on the gun decks, the indentations in the brass monkey would get smaller than the iron cannonballs they were holding. If the temperature got cold enough, the bottom layer would pop out of the indentations spilling the entire pyramid over the deck. Thus it was, quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey.

Plus the guy never answered the question. Reagan grew the economy by lowering taxes, thereby getting more people to pay taxes. When business needs to increase, you don’t raise your prices. You have a sale, and increase your base.

My son currently has a D in German and a F in European History, so he’s not allowed to play in the baseball game this Friday, that he was going to miss anyway in order to accept a Science Olympiad prize from the local university.

The irony of having your schedule freed up to go receive a physics award because you’re on academic probation.boggles my mind.

He missed ONE DAY of school when he was sick. I told him to ask his teachers what he needed to do to make up for the day he was out, but he didn’t do it, and he lost a letter grade in four classes because of a big fat ZERO.

I think we should put TiFW and Leon in a room with a video recorder and let them debate the merits of avoiding whatever food groups they’re skirred of at that particular moment in time … then post it on youboob and wait for the dough to come in.

Beasn, I think if the ex agrees to take over the whole lease she won’t have a problem. But, if he wants to fuck her over, she could end up with a big dent in her credit, and probably some liability if the property is fucked up or he doesn’t pay the rent.

Jewstin, her ex is an ass. Her plan is to move back in with her parents and just pay her half to the landlord for awhile until either he gets another roommate or she pays the penalty of leaving her lease early.

I don’t see him getting another roommate. From what I hear, noone wants to live with him because of his bitchy ways.

August is a long way off, I’d tell them now and see if she can depart the lease on amicable terms. He’ll be on the hook for the remainder, most likely, but they might apply her portion of the security deposit to rent (she won’t get that back with an early lease breakage in any event).

I had a co-worker turn into an anorexic. She ate maybe 500 calories a day, ran 5 miles, did 500 pushups, 500 situps, and it was never enough exercise. She was thin to begin with, and she dropped 25 lbs. She admitted to weighing 78 lbs., and I think she weighed less than that. She thought some extra vitamins would help.

It’s the mailman. Idiot left a slip telling me I owed .56 cents on a package mailed to me, and marked the “sorry we missed you” box without coming by to see me. I have been home all day. Also, this is the third time he does it.

The rescue called and asked if I would foster a 7 yo golden girl mix named Baby. Owner surrender lost home, cannot have a dog over 25# in the apartment. We have a booth at a event in Sarasota Sat. I will pick her up there.

Also, why is it that whenever I’m short on postage, they postmark the stamp that’s there and put it back in my mailbox with “postage due”. They’ve never gone ahead and delivered it and made the addressee pay.

Mare’s Musings

February 18, 2018

I’ll tell you, I had to turn the Olympics off last night. The gay overload with the gay flags and gayness and the gay skier and the all about gay was too much for me. How does being gay have ANYTHING to do with skiing unless you’re purposefully landing on a pole?